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post Jan 21 2007, 12:10 AM
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It appears that ScubaMagazine.net is spamming us here on Wetpixel by signing up as members who are clearly female (to entice our male-majority members) and spamming individual users via private messages.

Apologies for letting it through. We're taking action to make sure it's harder for people to do that.

And -- shame on scubamagazine.net for spamming. I'm going to make sure the entire online publishing dive community is aware of your actions. If anyone reading this is participating in the forums at scubamagazine.net, you may want to rethink your participation in a company who stoops to spamming.

For future reference, the two Wetpixel users who were spamming are "PhotoGirl" and "iDiveChick", both of whom came from ip address 65.111.169.35, which resolves to a machine at serverpronto.com.


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- echeng   scubamagazine.net are spammers w/shady business practice   Jan 21 2007, 12:10 AM
- - echeng   I've also received confirmation from Stephen W...   Jan 21 2007, 01:51 AM
|- - marinebio   QUOTE (echeng @ Jan 21 2007, 05:51 AM) I...   Jan 21 2007, 01:43 PM
- - echeng   It also looks like many of the images in iDiveChic...   Jan 21 2007, 02:54 PM
|- - underwatercolours   Would it be catty for me to post some of my best b...   Jan 21 2007, 06:23 PM
|- - jlyle   QUOTE (echeng @ Jan 21 2007, 03:54 PM) It...   Jan 22 2007, 06:18 AM
- - belizediversity   idivechick is also on flickr, it's just one pi...   Jan 28 2007, 03:55 PM
|- - JackConnick   QUOTE (belizediversity @ Jan 28 2007, 04...   Jan 28 2007, 04:37 PM
- - CADiver   Wait, no one say anything positive here ... At l...   Jan 29 2007, 01:49 PM
- - james   I think that's the idea CADiver...   Jan 29 2007, 02:01 PM
- - schford   Same behaviours over with us @ RebreatherWorld - d...   Jan 30 2007, 12:05 AM
- - Kelpfish   Too bad she had to also hijack her own pic from Pl...   Jan 30 2007, 02:35 PM
- - Scubatooth   well on another board theres a new member that mak...   Jan 31 2007, 08:30 AM
|- - echeng   QUOTE (Scubatooth @ Jan 31 2007, 09:30 AM...   Jan 31 2007, 09:27 AM
|- - underwatercolours   QUOTE (echeng @ Jan 31 2007, 10:27 AM) iD...   Jan 31 2007, 01:34 PM
- - echeng   Bonnie - I think you are right. The ip address do...   Jan 31 2007, 03:55 PM
- - wagsy   Here is what I came up with. 65.111.169.35 = Miam...   Jan 31 2007, 04:33 PM
- - echeng   Wags -- the point is that the ip address is probab...   Jan 31 2007, 04:37 PM
- - bmyates   idivechick not only had one of my photos (a bobtai...   Feb 24 2007, 11:10 AM
|- - TheRealDrew   QUOTE (bmyates @ Feb 24 2007, 03:10 PM) S...   Feb 24 2007, 01:11 PM
- - echeng   Bruce -- I would write to PhotoBucket to try to ge...   Feb 24 2007, 02:38 PM
|- - bmyates   QUOTE (echeng @ Feb 24 2007, 03:38 PM) Br...   Feb 24 2007, 08:26 PM
- - Drew   Well I think we all should avoid hitting the SM si...   Feb 24 2007, 10:18 PM
|- - pkrupela   I just received an email from someone today who in...   Feb 24 2007, 11:49 PM
|- - cor   What's that person's photobucket gallery? ...   Feb 25 2007, 04:12 AM
||- - pkrupela   QUOTE (cor @ Feb 25 2007, 05:12 AM) What...   Feb 25 2007, 09:42 AM
|- - bmyates   QUOTE (pkrupela @ Feb 25 2007, 12:49 AM) ...   Feb 25 2007, 11:38 AM
|- - TheRealDrew   Sections of books are reprinted, cartoons form new...   Feb 25 2007, 12:14 PM
|- - segal3   QUOTE (bmyates @ Feb 25 2007, 12:38 PM) F...   Feb 25 2007, 01:27 PM
|- - TheRealDrew   QUOTE (segal3 @ Feb 25 2007, 05:27 PM) Br...   Feb 25 2007, 01:41 PM
- - pkrupela   The picture of mine that she posted was either a) ...   Feb 25 2007, 01:11 PM
|- - TheRealDrew   QUOTE (pkrupela @ Feb 25 2007, 05:11 PM) ...   Feb 25 2007, 01:25 PM
- - Scubatooth   Has anyone found out where its avatar came from be...   Feb 26 2007, 07:24 AM
|- - Atlaua   QUOTE (Scubatooth @ Feb 26 2007, 12:24 PM...   May 22 2007, 05:51 AM
- - underwatercolours   Someone calling themself Sarah just joined my Scub...   Jun 21 2007, 09:15 PM
|- - JackConnick   QUOTE (underwatercolours @ Jun 22 2007, 12...   Jun 21 2007, 09:40 PM
|- - underwatercolours   One would think that whoever this person is might ...   Jun 22 2007, 05:41 AM
- - Scubatooth   eric sorry to drag up a old issue but there is s...   Mar 3 2008, 07:27 PM
- - pakman   scubatooth, lol thanks for the link... "He ...   Mar 3 2008, 07:58 PM
- - sgietler   wow, I actually met that guy before. he gave me hi...   Mar 3 2008, 09:22 PM
- - echeng   Here on Wetpixel, his username is "Rebreather...   Mar 3 2008, 10:33 PM
|- - Nick Hope   QUOTE (echeng @ Mar 3 2008, 11:33 PM) Her...   May 10 2008, 11:55 PM
|- - Scuba_SI   QUOTE (Nick Hope @ May 11 2008, 04:55 PM)...   Sep 19 2008, 01:32 PM
|- - TheRealDrew   QUOTE (Scuba_SI @ Sep 19 2008, 06:32 PM) ...   Sep 19 2008, 01:53 PM
- - Scuba_SI   I think he has a new one.... 'pinay pam' d...   Mar 3 2008, 10:36 PM
|- - pakman   QUOTE (Scuba_SI @ Mar 4 2008, 03:36 PM) I...   Mar 4 2008, 03:16 AM
- - bruceterrill   QUOTE (echeng @ Jan 21 2007, 01:10 AM) It...   Mar 6 2008, 12:53 AM
- - echeng   Yes, it appears to be the same person. Same ip ad...   Mar 6 2008, 12:30 PM
- - echeng   UPDATE: OOPS -- I thought you actually meant ...   Mar 6 2008, 12:35 PM
- - rtrski   photo_grl has also posted the item on Scubaboard. ...   Mar 6 2008, 05:00 PM
- - Bill22   I was quite surprised that "Pinay Pam" w...   Apr 6 2008, 04:10 AM
- - pakman   I wonder if these companies are truely sponsoring ...   Apr 19 2008, 10:29 AM
|- - underwatercolours   QUOTE (pakman @ Apr 19 2008, 12:29 PM) I ...   Apr 19 2008, 03:09 PM
- - echeng   Those banners look like they were ripped off of We...   Apr 19 2008, 01:34 PM
- - pakman   I've sent an email to those housing companies....   Apr 19 2008, 08:35 PM
|- - WaterWorks   QUOTE (pakman @ Apr 20 2008, 12:35 PM) I...   Aug 19 2009, 10:44 PM
- - Scubatooth   Eric just wondering since the buttons are a deriv...   Apr 20 2008, 09:33 AM
- - brendiver   Wow, this thread is fascinating, My question - wh...   Apr 21 2008, 07:32 PM
- - Bill22   QUOTE (brendiver @ Apr 22 2008, 01:32 PM)...   May 10 2008, 10:53 PM
- - indigo   Dear All, I keep getting 'we miss you' em...   May 12 2008, 06:04 AM
- - segal3   So...I saw RebreatherDave aka Dave Bischof aka iDi...   Sep 19 2008, 10:47 AM
|- - wagsy   QUOTE (segal3 @ Sep 20 2008, 03:47 AM) So...   Sep 19 2008, 04:33 PM
- - echeng   That is AWESOME. Next time, get your passenger to ...   Sep 19 2008, 11:41 AM
- - Drew   Just gets better. The SM.net team turns up in the ...   Jan 2 2009, 07:42 AM
- - WaterWorks   this is an old thread but I only JUST saw it! ...   Aug 19 2009, 10:28 PM
- - Drew   Seriously dude. He's not worth the time. This ...   Aug 20 2009, 07:03 AM
|- - WaterWorks   QUOTE (Drew @ Aug 20 2009, 11:03 PM) Seri...   Aug 20 2009, 04:21 PM
- - underwatercolours   FYI for those of you who are on Facebook, this guy...   May 5 2010, 03:54 PM

 

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